Week 2 of 2011 & we continued to explore the whole spectrum of 70’s rock music…

Heavy rock took up the first half hour of the show, with Alice Cooper, Rick Derringer, Led Zeppelin, Rory Gallagher, plus the title tracks from albums by AC/DC, Kiss, Aerosmith & Bachman-Turner Overdrive…

Keeping on the heavy side of rock, but in the realm of “are you sure that's heavy rock?”, we heard Nazareth (named after the town in Pennsylvania rather than where Mary & Joseph came from & certainly not where the band came from, which was Dunfermline, Scotland), Chicago (also a city) & The Osmonds (a great rock track from the clean city clan)…

Mott The Hoople told the true tale of a guitar lost on the way to Memphis (it got sent to Oriole, Kentucky by mistake), Sailor celebrated something with some fizzy wine from France, Kenny made a very dubious fashion statement, Mud considered hypnotherapy & T. Rex boogied (because they love to) with the last of their top 20 hits – their first eight UK chart hits all reached the top 2…

A quirky number from Jonathan Richmond & a chorus with no words from Steve Miller, a great song from Creedence Clearwater Revival, then Lennon & McCartney separately, Meat Loaf & ELO. Jeff Lynne wrote the entire double-album “Out Of The Blue” in about three & a half weeks, while McCartney’s “Juniors Farm” was written when he stayed at the farm owned by a certain Curly Putman Jr…

Gerry Rafferty passed away last week at the age of 63, from liver failure, caused by his chronic alcoholism, but he left behind some great music. From London Underground busker to member of The Humblebums (with Billy Connolly), to Stealers Wheel & the brilliant “Stuck In The Middle With You” &, finally, worldwide solo success, kicked off by a song that revived the sax – “Baker Street” earned Rafferty roughly £80,000 a year in royalties & it will surely continue to rapidly add to the five million times it’s been played on the radio…

Some beautiful songs saw us through to the end of the show: Only the second Genesis song with vocals by Phil Collins, Cat Stevens’ closure on his relationship with Patti D’Arbanville, Rod’s lovely flip-side to “Maggie May”, The Eagles & Elton’s beautifully delicate “Tiny Dancer”, written by Bernie Taupin about his wife…

Next week we will continue to rummage around in the incredibly varied delights of what was rock music in the seventies – when rock was serious, but not all the time…

The full playlist for this weeks show was as follows:

1

Alice Cooper

No More Mr. Nice Guy

2

AC/DC

Highway To Hell

3

Kiss

Hotter Than Hell

4

Rick Derringer

Still Alive And Well

5

Led Zeppelin

When The Levee Breaks

6

Bachman-Turner Overdrive

Not Fragile

7

Rory Gallagher

Secret Agent

8

Aerosmith

Draw The Line

9

Nazareth

Bad, Bad Boy

10

Chicago

I'm A Man

11

The Osmonds

Hold Her Tight

12

Mott The Hoople

All The Way From Memphis

13

Sailor

Glass Of Champagne

14

Kenny

Fancy Pants

15

Mud

Hypnosis

16

T. Rex

I Love To Boogie

17

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers

Egyptian Reggae

18

Steve Miller Band

Serenade

19

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Down On The Corner

20

John Lennon

Power To The People

21

Paul McCartney & Wings

Junior's Farm

22

Meat Loaf

All Revved Up And No Place To Go

23

The Electric Light Orchestra

Across The Border

24

Gerry Rafferty

Baker Street

25

Genesis

More Fool Me

26

Cat Stevens

Lady d'Arbanville

27

Rod Stewart

Reason To Believe

28

The Eagles

Tequila Sunrise

29

Elton John

Tiny Dancer

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